Poll: Student jailed for 9 months for "prank"

Was the sentence:

  • too harsh

    Votes: 178 36.1%

  • spot on

    Votes: 244 49.5%

  • not harsh enough

    Votes: 71 14.4%
  • Total voters
    493
Deserved 100%
I'd maybe agree that the punishment was a little harsh had he been drunk as a skunk and this behavior was out-of-character, and open realizing what he had done felt utterly ashamed and regretful.
This clearly isn't the case considering he kept the video for nearly a year and was showing it off too anyone and everyone as if it was something to be proud of!!

And yes, of course it's sexual assault
 
Just been reading bbc news. A man who violently assaulted a deaf-blind man and then threw him on to railway track was sentenced for 9 months.

That's the same as this guy.

Yeah because those crimes are the same...
 
Dis86 said:
Just been reading bbc news. A man who violently assaulted a deaf-blind man and then threw him on to railway track was sentenced for 9 months.

That's the same as this guy.

Yeah because those crimes are the same...
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At the end of the day, an asleep/out of it girl got poked in the cheek with man meat.

This guy assaulted and could have/intended to kill a vulnerable person, and got the same sentence.

Something is badly wrong.
 
It's not sexual assault if he wasn't at "attention".

Selective justice strikes again. This sort of thing is happening right now and people have a laugh about it, maybe get a bit annoyed. But if the stars align and the wrong person sees the video and a police oficer fancies having a crack at the "case", then you're taken to the cleaners.

I'd wager a large sum that this isn't the first time a willy-in-the-face incident has been reported to the police, but it was probably met with laughter after the "victim" had left the station.
 
Tombo said:
How does stopping someone who has committed a crime from finding decent work benefit society?
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It might be a blessing in disguise. The guy is probably lying in his cell right now with his padmate (drug addict who is in for GBH) wondering what the hell just happened, disillusioned with the entire British system and would shun a legal career anyway. This will all blow over. The guy will go back to uni and become a legend, hopefully change course and enter a less pathetic field than law. No one will remember his name and he'll have a normal career.

First offence, not likely to re-offend. What an utter waste of ime and money sending this guy down.

And no, there's no non-consensual bumsex in UK prisons. I speak from experience (or lack thereof :eek: ).
 
In my opinion, it's definitely on the harsh side. Of course it goes beyond a simple prank, but 9 months is too much. He's going to be paying for it for the rest of his life anyway, so why jail somebody who is clearly no danger to the public?
 
tbyeah said:
At the end of the day, an asleep/out of it girl got poked in the cheek with man meat.

This guy assaulted and could have/intended to kill a vulnerable person, and got the same sentence.

Something is badly wrong.
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Completely agree. The sentence should fit the crime. Either one, or both of these sentences is wrong.
 
If a women bumps into you with her boobs? Is that assault?

Also as above someone caught for theft can get let off yet the impact to the lives of those they steal from has to be worse than that for this "women".
 
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If a women bumps into you with her boobs? Is that assault?
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If a woman rubs her boobs in your face while you're sleeping, films it and shows loads of other people then it is assault.
You need to use the same analogy as the original crime.
 
That would be a surprising crime. Jail should be for violent criminals really, due to the nature of the crime here it could be classed that way. It was assault, I think the judge was harder on him because of his degree
They should have him picking potatoes for 9 months every day instead and it'd be a lot tougher on him. I expect he'll be paroled sooner then 9 months and nothing close to hard time but either way the main loss is to his record/career
 
silversurfer said:
That would be a surprising crime. Jail should be for violent criminals really, due to the nature of the crime here it could be classed that way. It was assault, I think the judge was harder on him because of his degree
They should have him picking potatoes for 9 months every day instead and it'd be a lot tougher on him. I expect he'll be paroled sooner then 9 months and nothing close to hard time but either way the main loss is to his record/career
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He'll be out in 4.5 months at the latest. I hope they'll transfer him to a Cat D prison seeing as he's a non-violent offender (no matter how hard they try to spin the "assault" part, he's not violent). They'll probably give him an electronic tag after 2 months and send him home. So 2 months inside + 2 months on a tag (home by 7pm every evening).

Imagine how much police/CPS time and money has been wasted on convicting this guy and he'll be out in 2 months. It almost seems vindictive. It should have been a quick visit to magistrates and a fine and/or a community order, or perhaps a police caution. Public sector employees have to find work to do to keep themselves busy and in a job I suppose.
 
We had a little discussion over lunch at work about this and surprisingly (or not as the case may be) all five women in our group thought the sentence was way overboard, while they said it was disgusting, none of them thought it was sexual assault, or even assault and two of them thought that it should not have been a matter for the police at all as they thought it was just drunken plebs being daft. On the other hand all of the blokes, except me, thought that he should have been banged up longer and a couple thought that it was akin to raping someone, which didn't go down too well with the ladies and at which point we changed the subject.

Go figure!
 
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